Convertible railway-car.



' APPLIUATIOI nun In. :9. we.

I. S. BRADDOGK & F. G. LINDSAY.

convmmu: RAILWAY cm.

- Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

2 BEESTS-SSBET 1.

J. S. BRADDOGK & F. G. LINDSAY.

CONVERTIBLE RAILWAY GAB.

-nrmou1ox mum In. 19. mo.

Patanted Aug. 16. 191 0.

2 GREENE-SHEET 2.

1 1 1 Hkbae: z/e mk Poms all of which will more fully hereinmeans wt an lG-HODS 13, which are secured .sists psirrably of any suitable number or UNITED STA1 ES PATENT OFFICE. units 8. BBADDOCK, or MOUNT PLEASANT. AErRANKLIN G. LINDSAY, or scorn 1;!ALE, PENNSYLVANIA: SAID LINDSAY ASSIGNOR TO THE LINDSAY COMPANY, REGISTERED, OF MOUNT PLEASANT, BENNSYLVANIA, A. CORPJRATION OF PENN- mama.

CONVERTIBLE RAILWAY-CAB.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

Application filed January 19, 1910. Serial No. 538.572.

To oft whom it may concern.

lie it known that we, Jams S. Baaonocn t and FMNKLIX G. Lmnsar, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at l Mount Pleasant and Scottdalc. in the county f \Ye finoreland and State of .lennsylvania, h ve invented certain new and useful Im- )rovrzacnts in Convertible Ra lway-Cars, of h n the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railway cars d wet for conveying coal, coke, gram, live sm land the like, and has particular referto certain novel features of construcd'ity converted from one type or form to ther in order to adapt 1t for various purft pnear in the following detai description and the accompanying drawings, in which figme- 1 is a side elevation of a car as de in accordance with this invention; Fig. 9,- i e vertical transverse section of the car, arttv hloken way; Fig. 3 is a transverse on azzxiinal section through the lower porti fi s the car, the parts wing in the position \wupied thereby when the car is emplo vt\i as a closed Cal; Fig.4- is a section corres aaaizug to that of Fig. 3. the parts being in the position assumed by them when, empltaoi as a partlv open car; Fw. 5 1s a d il perspective of a fragment ot the car along as upper edge; Fig. (i is a detail perspeciiw of one lower corner of a movable panel. and F 1g. 7 1s a detail of the bottom of the can I v I Tmwgbout the following description and on be several figures of the drawings similar parts are referred to by like reference charms-cm D A unmade in accordance with this inventi is preferably entirely or largely of metal tsrferably rolled steel. The bottom of the car or floor comprises any suitable numb f channel beams 10 ha\"in; upwardly extentirrg flanges 11. Thefioor proper conform oi horizontal plates 12 which lie above th har-ml beams 10. The floor plates 12 ar axwsxted to the channel beams 10 by in anr at 1e manner o the floor plates and as ex both of the vertical flanges 11.

The sass and ends of the car include a 14', of peculiar form. the concavity of the channels being inward toward the center of the car and to each of the side members of edges of the said plate 15 being spaced from the aforesaid channel beam res 14', whereby guide-ways 16 are rovide The channel beams 17 w ich bound the door-ways are substantially similar to the channel beams 14 just described, but one of the-flanges, 17, is adapted to have a door ofany suitable construction, not shown, secured thereto and does not provide a guideway 16 as above described. The flange 14', however, of the channel beam 17 is similar to the corresponding elements of the other channel beams and it together with'the laterally projecting edge of a plate 15 provides a wide-way 16 on one side of the channel cam 17. At each corner of the car is a vertical channel beam or post 18, the main portion of which is rectangular in cross sect-ion at the immediate corner of the car, two sides of the rectangle definin the corner of the car, and the other two si es of the rectangle being bent outwardly from I series of substantially vertical channel beams each other forming a pair of flanges 18' which are at right angles to each other and which lie in the same planes as the flanges 14 of the channel beams 14 on the sides andends of the car. An angle beam 19 embraces the post 18 on the outside, the lateral edges 19 of which extend beyond the main portion of the pa t 18 and offset parallel to the aforesaid flanges 18 forinin" guide-ways 16. The angle member 19 wil preferably be secured to the post 18 in any suitable permanent manner. as by rivets or bolts. The foregoing vertical members of the sides of the car aw preferably secured at.

their lower ends to one of the flanges 11 of the channel beams 10. A series of plates .20 108 are secured in any suitable manner within the guide-ways 16, either permanently or removably, and constitute the lower portion w wh a -ma a...

t g t t i t of the side and end walls of the ear. The plate in may extend upwardly from the floor to any desired extent.

The upp r portion of the side and end walls of the ear is made up of any \ttiillblt number of movable panels or r 'ttlntis 2t which are adapted to litle vei'tirally within the gnidewvaya It; and betw en eat-h adja rent pair of flanges H or 15, the guide- \v'ttfm' being wide enough to permit a fre movement of said panels :21 in addition to the plates :30. luarh panel or sect ion :21 is provided with an outwardly and d wnwardly projecting lip 21 hith is adapted to engage over the upper edgiof any Mfi'iltill or pane v immediately below the panel to which said lip is connected. Til-f lip in prel" erably as time-n shorter than th panel '31 11 is i'e ireseiited by the width of the thine-tv t t, so that the li may pass outwardly la tween the extreme edges of the tllttltlitl'\' forming said gt.iide-wa v$ while the pant-t itself operates within the guide-way; Th thii-hneas ot' the liill' li ti-i..,ttirt-, howthe lip attarlieil thereto ri' f' slide freely between the. panel or section therebeneath and the inner langes'ot the guide-ways. The

:vtantially iin'flose the entire sides and ends thereof. lu'aeh :ipiier HClititi or panel ill N tt'ielnad in place by m ans of a pin 13:3 which extends inwardly through a hole in the panel, said pin being, rigidly and perma nentl y connected ti-i a longitudinal beam or I .wzpported thereupon, a SUI'UZS f \tl'ttttll ehannel l eaiiis eonneeted at their lower end;

ii'ioldiiig-pieee 23 extending along the upper tit-at members of the side and end striirliire.

and a wr -s ot panels movable vmi aliy liaeli pin 23 passes through a hole in the panel 21 and the panel 15 lot-lied thereon by in ans of a tap red dowel-pin it, which may v be permanently rennet-ted to the adjareiiti flange 14' by means of a chain 25 so as to prevent. loss thereof. Any ether suitable locking lttttttlS'fUl securing the tion with th lower portion of the ear. eith r with or without the longitudinal braves 2U.

'lhe t ot l' the eat int-hid s a erie t of ailiiies J5. ti'e titlQ ol' \vliirli ar it eeived within the \ltiHiHl bean ll illHllT- The root' prion-r11! may be of metal or vio it and will he tt l it l' l'tt upon the said t'll it's :3 and up n th lt'flltlitlfJ-Pllt'tS .23. he root may llttlllilt any t t'ttl number of doors ight to var to a nonshlerable extent, as

may be permitted by the state ot' the art.

Th eon trii tion ot' the running gear of i the ear ia not ilititttlttl in niti' prewnt invenmovable panels in place may be employed, and the movable panels may be locked against either the flanges H or the plates 15.

A series of longitudinal ribs 26 extend on the sides and ends of the ear amt are eon- I erally extending flanges. a .-eriea ot wall seeextemtin thro i' 'lio itthe It J ier iortion ot the ear and downward toward the bottom the up er edew of the a tori-said Ht't'tltttlS or thereol' :h llir as may he de ired. Said ribs entire atrnetnre, and wh n the e i live Hltit'h I I for the nnma time the movable panels :l are lowered along aide of the platts go. they -'erve as ttt ltt r to retain the eonti-nta ot the ear in place. diagonal bra -es 27 may be n tal in connec- ,i: \\'lii ll pridng a bott m int-balm; longitudinal if desired any suitable number of ever. is not so great ut that the panel with 1 lion and may be of tilt) suitable or preferred lftttbtltttfllflll.

lii the form ol the (:H' bottom illustrated in Fig. 7 we have -\hown beams It) \\'lil(.'ll

movable panels it. when it is desired to i may be employed instead of the above menl term a closed box ear. are intended to stab- 5 i limited to any particular torm of supporting tioned beams tt it is our desire not to be ltitfttllitl'h' for the bottom of the ear.

'e elaini:-

l. The lttfl'ttli'lt' 'lllit'il ear body comprising a plnralitv ot ehannel beams, tloor plates edge of the ear and connected to the veri'tfl said tloor rhaiinel beams, said vertieal i-aeh i-liannel beam inrlnding a pair of lattions alone the lower portion of the ear and supported y -aid tlangw, and a series of lHHHtiiit l atieb along the ttlllitt portion of the ear and adapted to la" supp rted lliion m vable al ng said guide ways along side of the at't'ri'-.anl w ttons.

-l. 'l'lie hereinih'v'ribi'd var stiiittltl'c enmi-hannel beaiw liming vertieal flanges, a series of vertiv:l ehannt-l ltttllth eonneeted at their lower eihl t reitain f Mid \ertieal flanges. eaeli \i-rtieal ehannel bea t having a pair of oppositely extending flanges lying in'the same plane and a plate connected to the channel beam having its edges extend ing parallel to the aforesaid flanges t'orn nng vertical guide-ways, a series of wall scrtions mounted within said guide-ways and between adjaeent vertical channel beams. and a series of movable panels mounted within said guide-Pays bet ween adjacent. vertical channel beams. each of said panels lltI\'Hl,1I an outwardly and downwardly e.\'tendin; hp adapted to engage m'cr the up )er edge of the correspondin; aforesaid \val section.

5. The hereindeseribed ear structure comprising a. Series of side and end \ertz cal channel beams, a series of earlines having their ends seated within the upper ends of the side channel beams, molding-pieces extending along the sides of the car at the upper edges thereof, a series of panels movable between said vertical channel beatns, means to lock said panels to the aforesald l l l l molding-pieces. and a roof supported by said earlines and attending over said moldingpieces.

6. The hereindcscrilierl car structure comprising a series of vertical channel beams along: the si-les thereof, the adjacent channel beams forming guide-ways. molding-pieces extending alon; the sides of the same at the upper edges thereof and secured to the said vertical channel beams, a series of panels movable vertically in said guide-ways between adjacent channel beams, and means secured to and extending inwardly from said molding-pines to l()('l{ the movable panels thereto.

In testimony whereof we atlix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES S. BRADDOCK. FRANKLIN (l. LINDSAY. 'itnesses:

S. C. S'rsvrzxsox, FRANK A. Pram. 

